Horst Complex

prof.dr.ir. D. Lutters (Eric)

Full Professor
ET-DPM-IdPDE
Horst Complex W236
d.lutters@utwente.nl
+31534891197
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Being educated as a Mechanical Engineer while having an keen interest in product design, I teach subjects related to product development as the linking pin between design and (production) engineering. This ranges from production techniques & systems, via design methodology to information management and virtual reality. I'm quite involved in the BSc. and MSc. programmes Industrial Design Engineering. For the MSc. programme, I coordinate the track 'Management of Product Development' (MoPD). Next to being interested in the content of the programmes, I am also very interested in educational methods and educational innovations. 

My research interest is in Information driven Product Development & Engineering - because I firmly believe that the value of the information content by far exceeds the significance of processes as the pacer of development cycles. With our group, we therefore aim to engender tools and techniques for design support, bringing together topics like Virtual Reality, Digital Twins/Prototypes/Masters, sustainability, (non-deterministic) decision making and uncertainty in development cycles. 

At the Fraunhofer Innovation Platform at the University of Twente, I am a member of the steering board, and I'm also involved in a number of research projects at the FPC, focusing on Industry 4.0, Digital Twins, Virtual Dashboards and VR/AR solutions. 

I am a fellow of CIRP, the International Academy for Production Research; within CIRP I am active in the Scientific Technical Committee on Design and currently I'm chairperson of the overarching STC assembly. 

Next to my work in Twente, I am a professor extraordinary at the department Industrial Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch, South-Africa.

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Design
    • Contexts

  • Social Sciences

    • Economic and Social Development
    • Project
    • Process
    • Approach
    • Decision
    • Packaging

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Ancillary activities

  • PAO-TMBoard member
  • Stellenbosch UniversityProfessor extraordinary

Publications

2024

Is Humanitarian Aid Funding Fair and Square? Correlating Social Justice to Humanitarian aid Utilisation (2024)In Is Humanitarian Aid Funding Fair and Square? Correlating Social Justice to Humanitarian aid Utilisation (Proceedings IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC); Vol. 2024). IEEE. Haanyika, Z., Trauernicht, N., Martinetti, A. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC62424.2024.10771547A structured digital twinning approach to improve decision-making in manufacturing SMEs (2024)CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technology, 55, 359-374. Slot, M., Damgrave, R. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirpj.2024.10.010The effect of disparities between real and simulated worlds on decision-making (2024)IFAC-papersonline, 58(27), 1410-1415. Pronk, L., Altnji, S., Damgrave, R. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.10.259More than 10 years of industry 4.0 in the Netherlands: an opinion on promises, achievements, and emerging challenges (2024)International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 17(1), 1-12. Martinetti, A., Nizamis, K., Chemweno, P. K., Goulas, C., van Dongen, L. A. M., Gibson, I., Thiede, S., Lutters, E., Vaneker, T. H. J. & Bonnema, G. M.https://doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2024.2327380Closing the Perception-Reality Gap for Sustainable Fresh Food Plastic Packaging (2024)Procedia CIRP, 122, 647-652. Horsthuis, E., Groenen, F., Toxopeus, M. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.02.019Deliberate Decisions in Product Design: An Approach Inspired by Life Cycle Assessment Techniques (2024)Procedia CIRP, 128, 543-548. Horsthuis, E. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.06.030Deriving adequate insights in HMLV manufacturing (2024)Procedia CIRP, 130, 1422-1427. Liefhebber, R., Veldkamp, G., Damgrave, R. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.10.261Employing PLM in Learning Factories: A Project-Driven Architecture (2024)In Learning Factories of the Future: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Learning Factories 2024 (pp. 3-10) (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 1059 LNNS). Springer. Altnji, S. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65411-4_1Empowering tomorrow's industrial design engineers: A curriculum reform journey at the University of Twente's Faculty of Engineering Technology (2024)In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Conference of SEFI 2024. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. de Boer, W. F., Massa, J., Ludden, G. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14256842Engineering workshop education and supervision: AR for machine operation guidance and safety instructions (2024)Procedia CIRP, 128, 430-435. Damgrave, R. G. J., Knollema, S. L. & Lutters, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.03.023

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